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Bournemouth and he’s built
like an eel’. Yet although he
has many medals, trophies
and archive pictures, he
doesn’t have any of his
grandmother’s blue silk
swimming costumes: ‘she cut
one down and made it into a
swimsuit for my brother’s
bear!’ Thanks to her adoring
grandson’s thirty years of
research, Hilda James is
better known than many of
her contemporaries and to